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Home / 2024 / April / Campus update: Celebrating Earth Day, thank you Spring Give supporters, Potential Slugs in their element

Campus update: Celebrating Earth Day, thank you Spring Give supporters, Potential Slugs in their element

To:   UCSC Community

From:   Chancellor Cynthia Larive

April 19, 2024

The UC Santa Cruz community will join millions of people worldwide next week to commemorate Earth Day, established more than a half-century ago to demonstrate support for environmental protection. It’s a day tailor made for UC Santa Cruz. Sustainability is a focus of our research, a tenet in our operational practices, a core pillar of our recently completed campuswide strategic plan, and an increasingly important element of every campus capital project we pursue. Our students have been powerful partners in our efforts to advance sustainability, and we’ve built an especially strong Sustainability Office that helps to keep us at the forefront of climate-action and sustainability trends.

Rachel Carson College – named in honor of the scientist and author who helped to launch the environmental movement – is holding a weeklong series of events dubbed RCC Earth Week 2024 . Events kick off on Earth Day itself, Monday, April 22. The college’s newly opened dining hall is a testament to our commitment to live by our values. We dual-plumbed the building and will soon harvest rainwater for non-potable demands such as irrigation and toilet flushing. The building is all electric, which enables us to power it with clean, renewable energy sources. We utilized super-insulated building skins, which reduces the need for cooling systems, and the primary structure material is CLT, or Cross-Laminated Timber, which is a state-of-the-art renewable wood product. The Rachel Carson project and our Kresge College renewal were among the first projects in the UC system to utilize this sustainable material.

Something new we’re trying to help our community members live more sustainably is a recycling app. At its core is the acknowledgement that, well, recycling and composting properly can be confusing! Tossing items into incorrect waste streams can lead to landfilling recyclables or compostables. We hope the Recycle Coach helps to stop that. The app tells users exactly how to dispose of any item on campus. Since UCSC’s waste rules are built into the app, you can discard your items knowing you’ve selected the right bin. Visit the newly updated UCSC Waste Management website for more details.

Additional campus Earth Week happenings can be found on the Sustainability Office events page , including a Campus Clean-up planned for May 4 to close out Earth Month.

The Highlights

Dealing with the impacts of a campus power outage, broad support for spring give.

• Awards program honors impactful innovation
• Celebrating our golden alumni
• Potential Slugs in their element

The campus power outages of the past week have been difficult for our community, and I want to assure everyone that we have been doing all we can to ease the burdens that the outages create. Our utility team was in close contact with PG&E during both power failures, as the outages were the result of problems the utility company was experiencing off campus. Thank you all for your patience. I understand that these outages can be stressful. I am especially grateful to the hundreds of staff and faculty members who pivoted from their usual duties, devising creative instructional methods, providing dining options for on-campus residents, refueling emergency generators, and generally making sure our community members were cared for. That is no small task for a campus of our size. We do have a back-up cogeneration power system on campus, but it only has the capacity to meet a fraction of our power demands. For that, we depend on PG&E, and as evidenced by the outages, the wider public-power system is not without issues.

The generosity of the UC Santa Cruz community never ceases to amaze me. This year’s Spring Give , our annual crowdfunding effort that wrapped up Friday, raised a remarkable $150,478, with more than 2,260 donors taking part. Both figures are big jumps from last year. The total raised increased by about 40 percent and the number of those giving jumped by roughly 200 percent! That is amazing. The Spring Give is unique in that it allows donors to pinpoint exactly where their money is going, with dozens of campus organizations drumming up support from their backers. Thank you to all involved – University Advancement organized the event and a whopping 86 student groups took part – and especially to all who gave!

Innovation awards recognize work across campus, in community

Congrats to the recipients of the 2023 Chancellor’s Innovation Impact Awards , which were announced Thursday evening. The awards recognize the outstanding research and creativity taking place across the university and wider Santa Cruz community. This year’s awardees were three faculty members – Holger Schmidt and Susana Ruiz (and her team) each received an Innovator of the Year Award, while David Haussler  was honored for Lifetime Achievement in Innovation – and Santa Cruz’s Homeless Garden Project , which was presented with the Community Changemaker Award.

Now in its second year, the awards program celebrates innovation with positive real-world impacts. That’s what is so special about these awards. We’re recognizing members of our community who are committed to addressing the world’s most vexing issues and solving longstanding scientific and technical puzzles that have the potential to greatly improve people’s lives. Others who are honored are literally getting their hands dirty to help give their neighbors a better future. It is inspiring to come together to celebrate all of this work!

Alumni Reunion Weekend draws a crowd

The campus was filled with golden Banana Slugs this past weekend as Alumni Reunion Weekend celebrated graduates from the classes of 1965 through 1974. The annual weekend honors those who have reached the 50-year milestone and serves as our recognition that UC Santa Cruz’s standing as a premier research and educational institution results from the contributions made by those earliest alumni. More than 200 people attended events Friday through Sunday. Highlights included the dedication of a new path to Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery in the name of late Cowell Provost John Lynch, and numerous events that brought together alumni with current students – interactions that are special for both groups.

This summer, we’ll host another alumni event, as Return to the Redwoods happens Aug. 16–18. It is a one-of-a-kind campus experience during which alumni can stay overnight in the residence halls, letting them show their kids, grandkids or friends what is so magical about this place. Last year’s event saw 400 alumni register for events, with 300-plus choosing to spend the weekend living in campus dorms and apartments at Cowell and Stevenson colleges. Based on early registrations, this year’s attendance could double the 2023 number. It is shaping up to be a fantastic new UC Santa Cruz tradition. Visit the event website for more details.

Ooze coming? Potential Banana Slugs check out campus

They say Banana Slugs come out in the rain. Well that’s apparently the case with potential Banana Slugs, too, as we had a packed house at Banana Slug Day on Saturday despite stormy weather. An estimated 4,000 admitted students and their families visited campus for the special preview day. It was a chance to celebrate their admission, tour our beautiful campus, and connect with our extraordinary community. Highlights included a housing display featuring a dorm room mock-up, interactive Baskin Engineering and Coastal Campus tours, tables on student resources and organizations, and lots of opportunities to chat with faculty. A standout event was the Black Excellence Breakfast, featuring performances and a panel discussion. Additionally, the Office of Undergraduate Admissions is hosting admitted-student receptions in more than 15 locations across the United States and nine international cities, with Transfer Banana Slug Day slated for May 11. Opportunity and access to an excellent educational experience are two of our core values, and it’s exciting to show prospective students the possibilities that lie ahead!

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Several faculty and staff members at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point have been recognized for excellence within their professional fields.

• Professor Rebecca Stephens , chair of the English Department, won the 2024 University of Wisconsin Board of Regents’ Teaching Excellence Award. She has taught at UWSP since 1998 and has been chair since 2018. She also helms an English education program that has a 100 percent placement rate and five alums that were named Outstanding Teacher of the Year by the Wisconsin Council of Teachers of English. She teaches a Technologies for English Education course and will soon serve history and world languages teaching majors. Stephens also led an effort to create the Women’s and Gender Studies program and in 2015, she presented teaching methods at the National Women’s Studies Association Conference.
• Associate Professor Rebecca Franzen , environmental education, was named director of the Wisconsin Center for Environmental Education (WCEE) at UWSP. She succeeds Anna Haines, set to retire. In this role, Franzen will continue the WCEE’s mission of promoting environmental literacy and stewardship through hands-on education and outreach initiatives for both students and educators across the state.
• Professor Holly Schmies , athletic training, earned the Great Lakes Athletic Trainers Association Outstanding Educator Award. She was recognized for significant contributions while serving various roles during her more than 20 years at UWSP, including clinical preceptor, clinical education coordinator, program director for both bachelor and master’s programs and acting as associate dean. She is also active in several professional organizations and won the Wisconsin Athletic Trainers’ Association Outstanding Educator Award in 2014.
• Associate Professor James Berry , English, and Associate Professor Saemyi Park , political science, recently presented at an international conference for the Scholarship and Teaching and Learning Commons Conference in the country of Georgia. Berry presented on his study for an introductory linguistics course that emphasized awareness of indigenous languages and the significance of preserving them. Park presented her work on methods for effective retention strategies in online courses, particularly building rapport through video interaction in the Introduction to American Government course she teaches. Both are alumni of the 2022-23 Wisconsin Teaching Fellows and Scholars.
• Associate Lecturer Marcus Lewis , educational sustainability, was named among Wisconsin’s 32 Most Influential Native American Leaders by Madison 365. Lewis, a member of the Ho-Chunk Nation, has worked in diversity and equity for more than 10 years. He is the founder and owner of Key Change Consulting and a nationally trained Seeking Educational Equity and Diversity (SEED) facilitator. He has presented at national, state and local levels about educational equity, social justice and Native American education. He is an alum of UW-Stevens Point.
• Greg Diekroeger , retired assistant director of Campus Activities and Student Engagement at UWSP, was honored with the Lifetime Membership Award from the National Association for Campus Activities, which also honored him with its highest honor, the Founders Award. A longtime volunteer with NACA, he served on the board of directors and was chair in 2006. He worked at UWSP for 34 years.

• Susan LeBow , recently retired as the associate director of the University Centers, received the Association of College Unions International’s Emeritus Award. One of the association’s distinguished honors, the award is presented for leadership and dedication to serving students and advancing the campus community through the college union. LeBow worked at UWSP for 28 years, was recognized for her attitude and work ethic.
• Associate Professor Sinan Kanbir , mathematics, attended the prestigious Romanian Master of Mathematics competition where the U.S. math team secured first place. He is a long-time math coach of Andrew Carratu, who earned a silver medal.
• Associate Professor Thomas Leek , German, was selected for a System Fellowship for the 2024-25 academic year by the Institute for Research in the Humanities at UW-Madison. His winning proposal applies Natural Language Processing techniques to ancient languages to identify common sources of texts. The IRH awards fewer than 45 fellowships to internal and external applicants each year.
• Emeritus Professor Bob Rosenfield , biology, received the Wisconsin Society for Ornithology’s Golden Passenger Pigeon Award for outstanding contributions to ornithology. Rosenfield, an expert on Cooper’s hawks, has researched them for decades, including the effects of climate change on their breeding.

Hoodie Project Gets Students Excited About EWU

What began as an EWU alumnus gifting their elementary school mentee an Eagle hoodie has now grown into an initiative that each year donates nearly 1,500 EWU hoodies to school kids throughout eastern Washington.

The Hoodie Project acts as a liaison between Eastern Washington University and Washington schools. The project provides hoodies to fifth grade students at Spokane Public Schools, and gives them the opportunity to learn about college life.

“The Hoodie Project is about college awareness,” says Jana Jaraysi, EWU’s director of admissions. “We want to show students that they can go to college if they want to, that there’s support through financial aid, and that it can be a possibility for them.”

The first hour of the event is a Q&A session with Eagle ambassadors, student volunteers who are the face of the university. The ambassadors help with campus tours and outreach – visiting participating schools to share their college experiences and answer the students’ questions.

“I love seeing the kids get excited about hoodies and answering their questions. Fifth graders ask some amazing questions, and they’re interested in what we have to say,” says Matt Slater, president of the Eagle ambassadors.

“The Hoodie Project is important because we are promoting Eastern, as well as college life overall, to kids who are entering their teenage years. They’re thinking about the future, and they want to know more about college,” says Slater, who has spoken with fifth graders at 12 different Spokane elementary schools.

Each year, the Hoodie Project is asked to attend more schools. Last year, thanks to funding provided from WSECU, the Hoodie Project expanded to schools in Yakima. This year, they’ve added schools in the Tri-Cities as well.

“The support from WSECU allows us to reach more students, from middle school to high school, who may not think college is for them or know that there is funding to help them achieve their education goals. Without their support, we wouldn’t be able to do the activities and spread joy to future students,” says Jaraysi.

In this extension of the program, staff from EWU’s financial aid and admissions visit eighth graders. They speak to college bound students more specifically about funding, scholarships and housing before they receive their Eastern hoodie at the end of the event.

“The Hoodie Project is very important because it brings financial literacy and post-secondary awareness to students who might not have much exposure to it. It also allows us to start the conversation with middle schoolers, to open their minds to the idea of life after high school. It makes the conversation easier when they enter high school,” says America Simental, an EWU regional admissions advisor, who participates in the Yakima events.

Simental’s view was echoed by Yvonne Robinson, counselor at Yakima’s Wilson Middle School. “The eighth grade students that are part of the Hoodie Project love it. They wear their sweatshirts around school following the event, and like to gather together and talk about college,” says Robinson.

“Many of our students do not have parents who attended college and don’t talk about [higher education] in their homes,” Robinson says. All the information shared about college was important for our students to hear.”

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